"The Waltons"
The Tempest (1981)

Director:

Gabrielle Beaumont

Writers:

Earl Hamner Jr. (creator)
Ernie Wallengren (writer)

TV Series:

"The Waltons" (1972)

Original Air Date:

5 February 1981 (Season 9, Episode 10)

Genre:

Drama | Family | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Intimacy | Male Female Relationship | Multiple Actors For One Character | Family Relationships | Great Depression

Cast

Jon Walmsley	...	Jason Walton
Judy Norton-Taylor	...	Mary Ellen Walton Willard
Mary Beth McDonough	...	Erin Walton
Eric Scott	...	Ben Walton
David W. Harper	...	James Robert 'Jim Bob' Walton
Kami Cotler	...	Elizabeth Walton
Joe Conley	...	Ike Godsey
Ronnie Claire Edwards	...	Corabeth Walton Godsey
Peggy Rea	...	Rose Burton
Mary Jackson	...	Emily 'Miss Emily' Baldwin
Helen Kleeb	...	Mamie 'Miss Mamie' Baldwin
Earl Hamner Jr.	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lewis Arquette	...	Jefferson Davis 'J.D.' Pickett
Richard Gilliland	...	Arlington Wescott 'Jonesy'Jones
Scott Hylands	...	Curt Willard Packard
Mo Malone	...	Estelle
Pamela McMyler	...	Betty Howell
Marshall Reed	...	John Curtis Willard
Michael Reed	...	John Curtis Willard

Trivia:

Actor Tom Bower originally played Curtis 'Curt' Willard, introduced to the series in episode 5.7 "The Wedding" and appearing periodically through season 7, when the character was listed as killed in action during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in episode 7.10.

Quotes:

Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] A chill settled on Waltons Mountain that first autumn after the conclusion of the Second World War. Mary Ellen had been caught up in a whirlwind love affair that seemed certain to add a new member to the family. But a storm was brewing to the south, a storm that ended her romance and called her to a distant part of the country in search of a man she believed to be dead.